Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

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• Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Advantage
  • Stardom

• Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Things

• The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Chinese
  • More

• I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Program
  • Wear
  • Sunscreen

• I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Literature
  • Luck
  • Loved

• All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Poverty

• They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Up

• I've always been known for speeding up the tempo. To me, that's just the way you play the game - aggressive. There's no time to rest. You rest on the sidelines.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• We need to encourage and reward those who play by the rules.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann

• Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Experience
  • Eyes

• Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.

  Elliott Erwitt
  • Work
  • Book

• I want soccer to be a stable profession that attracts young female athletes when they graduate from college.

  

  Christen Press
  • College
  • Soccer

• I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Animal

• There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.

  

  Davinia Taylor
  • People
  • Sobriety

• I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Game

• One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really fun to see if you can remember something, and you don't always. I mean, sometimes it's just crash and burn.

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • People
  • Remember
  • Fun

• I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

  

  Marian McPartland
  • Bad
  • Hate

• I've been acting since I was 9, but in college I entered the drama program, and I didn't excel at it at all, kind of for the first time.

  

  Anna Faris
  • Time
  • College
  • Drama

• God never breaks His promises.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Promise
  • Break

• There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Life
  • Art

• The fifties were when people started coming down on 'juvenile delinquents,' 'hoodlums,' 'vandals'-anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

  

  Joe Bob Briggs
  • People
  • Motorcycle

• When I'm at home alone, I run up the stairs naked. It's quite funny.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Up
  • Home
  • Funny

• I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Running
  • Write
  • Parallel

• I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Running
  • Directors